One Last Thing

The Tacky Cities Of Tomorrow

If imagined cities are an easy shorthand for the world of tomorrow, then the ways we talk about the cities that...
Ian Steadman
Aug 10, 2018 4 min read

Is Your Fertility Data For Sale?

Could the sexual history information collected by period trackers be used by governments, corporations, or legal professionals to control or persecute...
Sian Williams Page
Aug 2, 2018 4 min read

WhatsApp Wants You To Stop Sharing Fake Stories

WhatsApp has key differences with platforms like Facebook and Twitter: it is private social media, which makes it harder to study...
Samira Shackle
Jul 27, 2018 3 min read

Ringtones and Playstations: The Tools of Grime’s Low-Fidelity All-Stars

How 21st-century London's homegrown music genre was shaped by the technology used to compose it.
Dan Hancox
Jul 20, 2018 4 min read

Guano, Guano, Gone

The story of guano is a story about what humans will do in the pursuit of keeping things just the way...
Ian Steadman
Jul 13, 2018 4 min read

Quality Over Quantity: Bioethics at the Vatican

Several hundred scientists, physicians, and policymakers gathered in Rome in April 2018 for the International Vatican Conference, to discuss ethics in...
Joanne Lee
Jun 28, 2018 3 min read

Action Replays For Human Rights Violations

What would hyperreal sports broadcasting look like, if it acknowledged the political context of these events?
Ian Steadman
Jun 21, 2018 4 min read

Humanizing Data: Highlights from EYEO 2018

A dispatch from the 2018 edition of the conference on technology and culture.
Duncan Geere
Jun 14, 2018 2 min read

How We (Don’t) Talk About Climate Change

It's hard to spur people to climate change action when nothing dramatic is happening - but it's equally hard to do...
Elizabeth Minkel
Jun 7, 2018 3 min read

Measuring Global Health with the DALY

A better statistic would balance both death and disability, weighting factors like duration of illness, severity of disability, distribution across a...
Duncan Geere
May 31, 2018 2 min read
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